"This was, indeed, a horrid event." said he in a hoarse voice.
"The more so, sir, as it was men's and not God's doing." "Tell me of those men," said the abbe, "and remember too," he added in an almost menacing tone, "you have promised to tell me everything.

Tell me, therefore, who are these men who killed the son with despair, and the father with famine ?" "Two men jealous of him, sir; one from love, and the other from ambition,--Fernand and Danglars." "How was this jealousy manifested?
Speak on." "They denounced Edmond as a Bonapartist agent." "Which of the two denounced him?
Which was the real delinquent ?" "Both, sir; one with a letter, and the other put it in the post." "And where was this letter written ?" "At La Reserve, the day before the betrothal feast." "'Twas so, then--'twas so, then," murmured the abbe.

"Oh, Faria, Faria, how well did you judge men and things!" "What did you please to say, sir ?" asked Caderousse.
"Nothing, nothing," replied the priest; "go on." "It was Danglars who wrote the denunciation with his left hand, that his writing might not be recognized, and Fernand who put it in the post." "But," exclaimed the abbe suddenly, "you were there yourself." "I!" said Caderousse, astonished; "who told you I was there ?" The abbe saw he had overshot the mark, and he added quickly,--"No one; but in order to have known everything so well, you must have been an eye-witness." "True, true!" said Caderousse in a choking voice, "I was there." "And did you not remonstrate against such infamy ?" asked the abbe; "if not, you were an accomplice." "Sir," replied Caderousse, "they had made me drink to such an excess that I nearly lost all perception.

I had only an indistinct understanding of what was passing around me.

I said all that a man in such a state could say; but they both assured me that it was a jest they were carrying on, and perfectly harmless." "Next day--next day, sir, you must have seen plain enough what they had been doing, yet you said nothing, though you were present when Dantes was arrested." "Yes, sir, I was there, and very anxious to speak; but Danglars restrained me.